Originally Posted by
chignutsak
I understand the point you are trying to make but there's no way that Fed Ex and UPS could pick up the slack. They are not set up to hit every residence, every day, like the USPS does. Their business model doesn't even come close to allowing that. There's really no money in delivering coupons and pizza flyers, not enough to justify a UPS guy's $30+ an hour.
I agree with you there insofar as the FDX/UPS competitors wouldn't deliver 2 pieces of junk mail to every address al over BFE. They would only deliever where they could make money.
That's one of the characteristics of the invisible hand--you don't know what it will look like when it is finished. It's a safe bet that it won't look like the inefficient government program that it is replacing.
To the extent that we are subsidizing the pizza coupon industry and rural mail delivery I am content to do without these services. If others want them let them pay what it actually costs.
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